What: Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:
ELON), the world’s leading
control networking platform provider, will introduce and demonstrate at
the 2014 AHR Expo its multiprotocol FT 6050 system on chip (SoC), the
first to support both LonWorks® and BACnet® protocols over IP on a
single chip. The FT 6050 uses the ISO-standard Free Topology (FT)
channel, the building industry’s most reliable connectivity option.

In its booth at the AHR Expo, Echelon OEM device customers will
demonstrate building automation devices built on the new FT 6050 chip,
including:

Quark Communications Inc. and Smart Controls LLC will demonstrate
products built around the FT 6050 that can act as either LonWorks or
BACnet devices, or both at the same time.

ICONICS will demonstrate its GENESIS64™ Suite being used as a BACnet
workstation to manage the Quark and Smart Controls devices.

ConnectEx Inc. will demonstrate software that can connect BACnet/MSTP
devices to the BACnet/IP-over-FT network and offer consulting services
to OEMs and integrators looking to explore this new approach to BACnet
and LonWorks co-existence.

Echelon’s own OpenLNS software will be used to show compatibility
between LonWorks/IP devices and existing LonWorks devices that do not
use IP.

When: January 21 to 23, 2014

Where: The Javits Center in New York City; Echelon is in Booth
#426.

More information: The FT 6050 is a member of Echelon’s new IzoT™
platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). OEMs that have
worked exclusively with either LonWorks or BACnet protocols can now use
the FT 6050 to develop devices that they can use to participate in both
LonWorks and BACnet opportunities. OEMs that have maintained two
separate LonWorks and BACnet development efforts and product lines can
consolidate their next-generation product development to the FT 6050 and
build a single product line that is both LonWorks- and BACnet-capable.

The IzoT platform also includes software that OEMs can use to develop
compatible devices that work on media other than the FT channel, such as
Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 802.15.4. The IzoT platform simplifies product
development for the OEM, improves choice for integrators and owners, and
puts an end to pointless protocol arguments that have hampered the
building automation industry.

“The ability to run either LonWorks or BACnet on a single device is a
kind of holy grail for developers of building automation applications.
Our customers will greatly benefit from automation networks that
incorporate the best installation and management features of LonWorks
and BACnet.”
– Alan Slabodkin, vice president of Western Allied (
wasocal.com),
a leading Southern California HVAC contracting firm

“Echelon’s IzoT platform will be industry-changing. We’re excited to
incorporate the FT 6050 into products to provide customers a
multiprotocol platform simultaneously utilizing LonWorks, BACnet and
other industrial protocols on a single device.”
– David Kniepkamp,
founder and president of Smart Controls LLC (
www.smartcontrols.com),
a contract engineering company and manufacturer of building automation
and industrial control products

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